Security updates for openSUSE Leap stable releases are provided by the SUSE Security Team, with the help of community maintainers and developers. See the openSUSE Lifetime page for details on currently maintained stable releases and lifetime details.

For packages in Leap that are inherited from SUSE Linux Enterprise, the updates built from the same sources will be released for openSUSE Leap.

Security announcements are sent to the
opensuse-security-announce
mailinglist. An archive is also available.
This security announcement lists only important features and critical updates to keep traffic low.
To get all openSUSE updates subscribe to the opensuse-updates mailinglist, or look at its archive.

openSUSE updates are freely available on our Update Mirrors. Desktop applets warn users about new updates and offer to install them with just some mouse clicks. Alternatively command line update tools (zypper) or graphical package management tools (YaST) are also available for installing updates, or you can even turn on fully automatic update installation.